UGA blog finds new home
Morning all. As I’ve said a couple of times this week, we’re converting this blog over to a WordPress platform and it will be a permanent move the first of next week.
Those of you who are regulars probably know that I’m not what you’d call techno-wizard when it comes to these things. But from what I understand the technology offered in this new format should make the blogging and commenting experience better for all. Of course, I’ll be learning as we go along, too. But I’m hoping to provide more pictures and video and things like that which should bring the blog more to life.
Of course, this blog is nothing without all you guys so I want to heartily invite (read: beg) you to come over to the new site by CLICKING HERE ON THE NEW ADDRESS and save it in your browsers. As of Monday, Feb. 23rd, this will be the permanent home of the UGA blog you so love or, in the case of some of you, love to loathe. If you’d prefer to copy and paste or just memorize, the new address is: http://blogs.ajc.com/uga-sports-blog/.
See at the new place!
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Time to replace Stegeman
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia coach Dennis Felton got a little mad at me and another reporter for the way we reported before the Tennessee game his comments about being bothered by the lack of attendance at basketball games and the way he answered a question about whether he felt like he got enough support from the athletic administration. The truth is, and I know this for a fact, Felton and athletics director Damon Evans actually get along very well, exceptionally. Evans has done as much as he possibly could for basketball in his short tenure and given Felton almost everything he asked for. Felton knows and appreciates this and they’re friends over and above that.
I think what may have gotten lost in translation on this story is that Felton truly wants the best for Georgia basketball and he’s going to push the envelope when it comes to trying to get it. And the bottom line is this: Felton would give his right arm for a brand new basketball arena on the Georgia campus.
It would appear that’s not going to happen anytime soon since the Bulldogs are breaking ground this week on a new $30 million practice and training facility that will be connected to Stegeman Coliseum. From people I’ve talked to, it would probably take at least $100 million to build a new arena. It seems to me if they are spending $30 million on an addition — not including the millions and millions they’ve poured into renovating and updating Stegeman over the years — Georgia would have been better off going for a new arena right now. I’m sure it wouldn’t be easy to pay for but, at the athletics board meeting last week, Evans informed the group that Georgia was one of the most profitable athletic departments in the country, if not the No. 1 program.
It certainly would help the cause if the Bulldogs could start winning big on a regular basis. The women’s team already does and so does gymnastics. What do you think? Is Georgia worthy and/or capable of building a state-of-the-art basketball facility? If not now, when? Will Stegeman do? How much longer can the Coliseum, built in 1964, last?
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